Delphine de Vigan
French novelist
Delphine de Vigan (born 1 March 1966) is an internationally known French novelist who has won several awards De Vigan wrote her first four novels by night while working at a public opinion firm in Alfortville by day. Her first published work, Jours sans faim (2001), was published under the pseudonym Lou Delvig, although since then she has written under her own name
Quotes
edit- “People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar reveals the hidden meaning of history, hides disorder and abandonment, links things and brings opposites together. Grammar is a wonderful way of organising the world how you'd like it to be.”
- “Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over.
- “Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can also be violence in silence and that it’s sometimes invisible to the naked eye. There’s violence in the time that conceals wounds, the relentless succession of days, the impossibility of turning back the clock. Violence is what escapes us. It’s silent and hidden. Violence is what remains inexplicable, what stays forever opaque
- “If you consider that a single straight line can be drawn between any two points, one day I'm going to draw a line from him to me or me to him.”
- “But sometimes the night reveals the only truth that time passes and things will never be seen the same again.”
- “And when he catches me looking at him, he gives me this incredibly sweet, calm smile, and I think that we've got our lives ahead of us, our whole lives.”
